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The article mentions that apple had the opportunity to correct the record and did not.

These are multi billion and trillion dollar companies, they should be held to a high standard.

Yes, though fwiw steam provides (in my opinion) more benefits to gamers and games than the apple appstore does to generic apps trying to do all manner of things.

And additionally steam isn’t a walled garden, there is actual choice, and steam goes out of its way to be usable on multiple platforms. Very different situation to the locked down apple ios ecosystem.

Inflation, and the even hire steady increases in cost of living with wages lagging far behind; people have to spend a much larger percentage of their income just to sleep somewhere at night than people did in the 2000s, 1990s and 1980s.

This trend has been evident in the US since like the 1960s. If you would like to verify, try comparing median income levels and median cost of living levels for some of those year ranges.

It’s regulated, not illegal.

“Experts say the insurance landscape in California is particularly tricky because, in addition to the wildfire risk, the state has a law that adds extra approval measures, including board approval and review by the insurance commissioner, if an insurance company wants to raise the rate of insurance by more than 7%. That’s been in effect since the 1980s.” https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/05/what-homeowners-need-to-know...

Did you mean to say unity in your first paragraph? Your second paragraph suggests you’re using a different platform.

Here (with parent sources mentioned at the link) it is claimed that training costs 15 million, a bit more than a bit eh?

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/35431/how-much-doe....

As someone who is interested in getting some kind of back up battery at some point, ty for making a recommendation. But could you clarify what you mean by the kWH unit you used on 7 and 21? Seems like those should just be kW, a unit of power rather than kWh, a unit of energy.

From the article: "Hurricane Beryl took just 42 hours to go from a tropical depression to a Category 3 storm," according to meteorologist Sam Lillo. "This has been done 6 other times in Atlantic hurricane history. And the EARLIEST date this was achieved before was ... September 1,"

I don’t understand this take, because the elected officials could have always made any law regulating this stuff regardless of this ruling. The fact they haven’t tells us something.

And this ruling will result in a lot of the common good (limited resources like fish, air quality, etc) being trampled upon and becoming the profit of a couple companies, taking these goods away (sometimes irrevocably such as in the case of over fishing) for the generations of the future.

We need our regulatory bodies to be able to move faster because by the time congress might respond it will be too late.

What I observed in my neighborhood is that the school playgrounds which used to be unfenced were essentially secondary parks. But they have since been “locked down”, removing more places kids once could just go to hang out in our paved over subrbia. I also had the benefit of an undeveloped forest behind my house to go explore and play in, but I don’t think most kids these days have access to that without an adult driving them to such a location. Walkability to nature is a big plus.

As someone with a tesla and with a parent who bought the fsd beta package, I’d be very interested if there’s some kind of payout for consumers/customers!

The title is matching the title of the linked article (if you’re referring to the title here on HN, and not the title the author chose to use for their article).

From a pedantic perspective, the title doesn’t imply the positivity/negativity of the correlation, just that there is a relationship to be elaborated upon in the article.

He notes these other forms of HCI in the video, and I think you’re really underselling the main point of this being ease of use. All of those methods are significantly degraded experiences compared to normal ways of interacting with a computer. The potential for a quadriplegic to interface with a computer at a higher ease of use compared to a human without disabilities is huge.

The sheer joy on this mans face to be able to freely control a mouse again, and engage with general technology. If they’re able to make this into a generally safe procedure, a lot of people will be interested in just that.

Of course, but that’s going to take so much more time and effort. You can see how much joy this man is in just having the autonomy to move a mouse again. That’s honestly amazing.

I believe the Higgs boson is what generally gives particles mass, which is different from particles which create fields and forces?

Keeping satellites in orbit around the moon is very expensive. The moons gravity is lumpy, and if you try to orbit far enough that it balances out, then perturbations from the earth and sun still end up destabilizing it. This means it takes a lot of station keeping (firing thrusters, using limited propellant) to maintain an orbit.

I think there are plans for better relays situated around the moon, but a lunar gps system is not likely given the costs and engineering difficulties.

I haven’t read the article (paywall) so I can’t be sure, but I believe the article is referring to the Intuitive Machines lunar landing.

SpaceX has not yet attempted to land anything on the moon.

I was thinking that because it was a roll excursion, assuming that’s along the axis intersecting the plain of the landing legs, it’s not a matter of being upright but rather a matter of being pointed in the wrong direction. Because they’re landed near the south poll of the moon, and because the moon is tidally locked to the earth and always shows us the same side, I imagine they have a very specific angle they need to be at to be looking at the earth just over the moon’s horizon.

A Kerbal style landing in real life.

I was surprised to learn that it’s actually a fair bit heavier. I was lucky enough to get to attend a talk by the head of the Ingenuity program, and he mentioned how the mass ballooned a bit to something under 5 pounds.

(Listed as 4 pounds on this official fact sheet) https://mars.nasa.gov/files/mars2020/MarsHelicopterIngenuity...

But, wasn’t the reason proprietary unixes died out at major work horses because of a nearly feature comparable free alternative (Linux)?

Extending the analogy, LLMs won’t die out, just proprietary ones. (Which is where I think this tech will actually go anyway.)

Interesting business decision here by Epic/Psyonix.

Technological advances are nice, but you can’t just assume they will happen. There’s no law or axiom that says we will discover something new, and certainly not on any time scale that we could plan against to avoid problems we predict today.

They are just being realistic, their example isn’t extreme (though yours is).

It is entirely possible with our current level of technology to adjust to the realities of the physical limitations in the world as we know it, without needing to resort to picking “who lives and dies”.

You’re entirely missing the context of what you call “alarmist talk”.

The issue isn’t that the water will cease to exist, or that the planet will literally be destroyed. It is that our way of life is unsustainable and actively degrades the future quality of life for us in the future (and our children).

You can compare our mindless pumping of water from the ground to the ignorant farming practices that lead to the dust bowl. If we don’t use our knowledge to take steps to avoid running out of usable water by using it less and more intelligently now, we will come to a hard point in the future.

Which takes cooperation and empathy for everyone’s situations and the overall reality in front of us.

As another computer enthusiast, why not both? I have a pretty beefy rig, but I’d also like to leverage the full compute on my iphone/ipad. If the software wasn’t locked down, the hardware would be more than competitive with the laptop my job provides me. And having an ipad as a full compute device would have been perfect for my university days; the small programming assignments I had would have been perfect to develop on that form factor (ipad + small bluetooth keyboard, together thinner than most laptops).

I’m pretty sure there’s a setting in ios as to the default file format for photos? And jpeg is an option?

Just checked - it’s under “camera - formats - most compatible”.

Starship development is making steady progress; most of the slowness is due to adhering to the timelines of regulatory bodies like the FAA. And I think it’s good they go slowly, building the most powerful rocket thus far in our history is dangerous work. But their approach of rapid prototyping and testing to failure seems to be working, and produces pretty fantastic visuals for us to watch. Just look at the last static fire test completed a couple days ago.

Can you elaborate further on the points of what happened, the countries themselves, and the final quote?